SFU Galleries at the Vancouver Art Book Fair
October 19 - 21, 2018, 11 - 7PM
Opening Night: October 18, 6 - 8PM
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver
SFU Galleries is pleased to be participating in this year's Vancouver Art Book Fair at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. VABF is an annual festival of artists' publishing featuring over 100 local and international publishers, alongside a range of programs, performances and artists' projects.
This year we will be offering a FREE publication from the Critical Reader Series with the purchase of any three in the Series. The Critical Reader Series is a discursive forum that encourages critical writing projects that run parallel to exhibition programming at SFU Galleries.
A tote bag with artwork by Charlene Vickers' will also be featured at VABF in relation to Vickers' site-specific project, Speaking with Hands and Territories, at SFU Gallery. $10
The publications produced by SFU Galleries that can be found at this year's VABF include:
$5 Handshake: Art on Treaty 8 Territory (2018) edited by Melanie O'Brian, this publication is a corollary to the group exhibition Maps and Dreams (Audain Gallery, June 1 - July 29, 2017). Contributions by Brenda Draney, Hugh Brody, Kate Hennessy, Candice Hopkins, with a conversation between exhibition curators Brian Jungen and Melanie O'Brian, as well as a reprinted chapter from Hugh Brody’s 1981 anthropological study Maps and Dreams. This is the fourth publication in the SFU Galleries Critical Reader Series. $15
Borrowed Lady: Martine Syms (2017) edited by Amy Kazymerchyk expands from Martine Syms' exhibition Borrowed Lady (Audain Gallery, October 13 - December 10, 2016), with texts by Martine Syms, Christina Sharpe and Diamond Stingily. This is the third publication in the SFU Galleries Critical Reader Series. $15
Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience (2015), edited by Antonia Hirsch features contributions by Theodor Adorno, Lorna Brown, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Elena Filipovic, François Laruelle, Olaf Nicolai, Lisa Robertson, Ana Teixeira Pinto and Wolfgang Winkler. This is the second publication in the SFU Galleries Critical Reader Series. $15
Alex Morrison: Phantoms of a Utopian Will/Like Most Follies, More Than a Joke and More Than a Whim (2015), co-published by SFU Galleries and Burnaby Art Gallery, this publication includes a curatorial introduction, an interview with the artist by Denise Ryner and a commissioned experimental text by Andrew Berardini. $10
Samuel Roy-Bois: Not a new world, just an old trick (2015), co-published by SFU Galleries, Carleton University Art Gallery and Oakville Galleries and including essays by Adrian Blackwell and Kathleen Ritter that consider ideas and topics related to Roy-Bois' 2013 work of the same name. $25
Damian Moppett: The Bells (2014), edited by Melanie O'Brian with texts by Damian Moppett, Sharon Kahanoff and Lisa Robertson, as well as a reprinted 1974 text by Hollis Frampton. This is the first publication in the SFU Galleries Critical Reader Series. $15
Liz Magor: The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities (2008) published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Henry Art Gallery from September 13 through to December 14, 2008 and at SFU Gallery from January 10 until February 21, 2009. It includes contributions from curators Sara Krajewski and Bill Jeffries. $10
Jerry Pethick: Works 1968-2003 from Collections on Hornby Island (2011), published alongside an exhibition that included a selection of Jerry Pethick’s works made between 1968-2003 (SFU Gallery, November 5 to December 17, 2011). It includes contributions by Geoffrey Farmer, Bill Jeffries and writer Michael Turner. $10
The Insurance Man: Kafka and the Penal Colony (2011) published alongside the exhibition of the same name that was held April 25 - June 27, 2009 at SFU Gallery. It includes contributions by Ian Angus, Lee Bacchus, Michael Barnholden, Michael Bourke, Willie Brisco, Rob Brownie, Kathi Diamant, Brian Graham, Mark Jaskela, Bill Jeffries, Tom McGauley, Tom Morris, ryan andrew murphy, carl peters, Kaia Scott, Peyman Vahabzadeh, and Jerry Zaslove. $10
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